Civil society

A Case Study of South Korea Rise and Fall in Anti-corruption Combats by Haocheng Bi @ University of California, Los Angeles

posted on March 15, 2018 by HAOCHENG BI

University of California, Los Angeles Tagged With: Civil society, Confucianism, Money Politics, SamSung, South Korea, Vertical Accountability

In late October 2016, Jay Y. Lee, the head of Samsung South Korea’s largest conglomerate, was reported to "have bribed totaling more than $36 million" to Choi Soon-sil, a long-time friend of President …

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So you want to weaken your civil society? Cut off its foreign funding. By Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University

posted on November 26, 2017 by Victor Brechenmacher

Brown University Tagged With: Civil society, CSOs, democracy, foreign agents, Russia, Russia and Eastern Europe

On Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as 'foreign agents.' The move echoes a 2012 Russian law asking the same of …

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